Tennessee WILLIAMS + Geraldine PAGE +Cast—SIGNED “Summer Hotel” Playbill

Description: PLAYWRIGHT WILLIAMS,GERALDINE PAGE,And OTHER CAST MEMBERSSIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PLAYBILL Clothes for a Summer Hotel is a two-act play written in 1979–80 by Tennessee Williams concerning the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties. Williams began work in 1976 on what he envisioned as a "long play" about the Fitzgeralds (he eventually cut it down), and had Geraldine Page in mind to play Zelda from the start. Williams biographer Donald Spoto has argued that Scott's visit to Zelda was a clear representation of the playwright's frequent visits to his mentally incapacitated sister, Rose, in mental hospitals. Williams himself admitted a close identification with Fitzgerald, saying, "At one point I went through a deep depression and heavy drinking. And I, too, have gone through a period of eclipse in public favor....The Fitzgeralds embody concerns of my own, the tortures of the creative artist in a materialist society....They were so close to the edge. I understood the schizophrenia and the thwarted ambition.” Williams also acknowledged feeling a kinship with Zelda and insisted, "I think that Zelda has as much talent as her husband did." After an unsuccessful out-of-town tryout in Washington, Clothes for a Summer Hotel opened at Broadway's Cort Theatre on March 26, 1980, with José Quintero directing and Page and Kenneth Haigh leading the cast. The play was interpreted by critics as a literal biography of the Fitzgeralds "that got its facts wrong" rather than a metaphorical play that alluded to Williams' life. Walter Kerr of The New York Times even faulted the play for "the fact that Mr. Williams's personal voice is nowhere to be heard." In addition to receiving poor critical notices, the play opened at the same time that New Yorkers were dealing with a heavy blizzard and a transit strike, and subsequently closed after fourteen performances. As a result of the play's critical failure, Williams vowed that he would "never open a play in New York again....I can't get good press from the New York Times, and {critics} Harold Clurman, Brendan Gill and Jack Kroll hate me....I put too much of my heart in {my plays} to have them demolished by some querulous old aisle sitters." In 1981 Williams revised the play for the publication of its acting text by Dramatists Play Service; he then revised that text for the 1983 New Directions publication, which appeared posthumously. OPENING NIGHT CAST Kenneth HaighF. Scott FitzgeraldGeraldine PageZelda FitzgeraldDavid Canary InternEdouardRobert BaysJournalistRobert BlackHemingwayMichael ConnollyGerald MurphyMary Doyle BeckyMichael Granger Doctor ZellerDoctor BaumGerman Sister #1Nurse #1DancerTanny McDonald GhostHadley HemingwayNurse #2Josephine NicholsGerman Sister #2Mrs. Patrick CampbellScott PalmerGhostPhotographerGarrison PhillipsGhostAudree RaeGhostMadame EgorovaMarilyn RockafellowGhostSara MurphyWeyman ThompsonGhostSingerUnderstudies: Robert Bays (Hemingway, Doctor Baum, Doctor Zeller), Michael Connolly (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Mary Doyle (Sara Murphy), Madeleine le Roux (Zelda Fitzgerald, Hadley Hemingway), Tanny McDonald (Zelda Fitzgerald, German Sister #1, German Sister #2), Josephine Nichols (Madame Egorova), Scott Palmer (Intern, Edouard), Garrison Phillips (Gerald Murphy, Doctor Baum, Doctor Zeller, Journalist) and Audree Rae (Becky) Production StaffTheatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)Produced by Elliot Martin; Produced in association with Donald Cecil and Columbia PicturesWritten by Tennessee Williams; Incidental music by Michael ValentiDirected by José Quintero; Dance Consultant: Anna Sokolow; Dance Coordinator: Weyman ThompsonScenic Design by Oliver Smith; Costume Design by Theoni V. Aldredge; Lighting Design by Marilyn Rennagel; Hair Design by Alan Schubert; Miss Page's Hairstyles by Michael Heller; Assistant to Mr. Smith Rosaria SinisiGeneral Manager: Victor Samrock; Company Manager: John LarsonProduction Stage Manager: Robert L. Borod; Stage Manager: John Handy; Assistant Stage Mgr: Scott PalmerCasting: Marjorie Martin; General Press Representative: Betty Lee Hunt and Maria Cristina Pucci; Advertising: Serino, Coyne & Nappi; Press Representative: James Sapp and Clarence Allsopp WILLIAMS Bio Tennessee Williams (1911 – 1983) was a playwright screenwriter novelist and story writer. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is thought to be modeled on his sister Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire also is based on her and that the mental deterioration of Blanche's character is inspired by Rose's mental health struggles. Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie generally was taken to represent Williams's mother Edwina. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself. In addition, he used a lobotomy as a motif in Suddenly, Last Summer. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. These two plays later were adapted as highly successful films by noted directors Elia Kazan (Streetcar), with whom Williams developed a very close artistic relationship, and Richard Brooks (Cat). Both plays included references to elements of Williams's life such as homosexuality, mental instability, and alcoholism. Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize. The Board went along with him after considerable discussion. Williams wrote The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer when he was 29, and worked on it sporadically throughout his life. A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for the first time on October 1, 2006, in Provincetown by the Shakespeare on the Cape production company. This was part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) is also based on his memories of Provincetown in the 1940s. His last play went through many drafts as he was trying to reconcile what would be the end of his life. There are many versions of it, but it is referred to as In Masks Outrageous and Austere. PlaysCandles to the Sun (1936)Fugitive Kind (1937)Spring Storm (1937)Me Vashya (1937)Not About Nightingales (1938)Battle of Angels (1940)I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1941)The Glass Menagerie (1944)You Touched Me (1945)Stairs to the Roof (1947)A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)Summer and Smoke (1948)The Rose Tattoo (1951)Camino Real (1953)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)Orpheus Descending (1957)Suddenly Last Summer (1958)Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)Period of Adjustment (1960)The Night of the Iguana (1961)The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1962, rewriting of Summer and Smoke)The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)The Mutilated (1965)The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968, aka Kingdom of Earth)In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)Small Craft Warnings (1972)The Two-Character Play (1973)Out Cry (1973, rewriting of The Two-Character Play)The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)Vieux Carré (1977)Tiger Tail (1978)A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)The Notebook of Trigorin (1980)Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983) Novels The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950, adapted for films in 1961 and 2003)Moise and the World of Reason (1975) Screenplays and teleplays The Glass Menagerie (1950)A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)The Rose Tattoo (1955)Baby Doll (1956)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)The Fugitive Kind (1959)Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)Boom! (1968)Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays (1984)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009; screenplay from 1957) GERALDINE PAGE Bio Geraldine Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an actress who earned critical recognition as a stage actress on Broadway as well as in feature films and television. Over the course of her career, which spanned over three decades, Page earned a total of eight Academy Award nominations, three Emmy nominations, and four Tony nominations. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). Films1953 Taxi Florence Albert Gregory Ratoff 1953 Hondo Angie Lowe John Farrow John Wayne1961 Summer and Smoke Alma Winemiller Peter Glenville 1962 Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago Richard Brooks 1963 Toys in the Attic Carrie Berniers George Roy Hill 1964 Dear Heart Evie Jackson Delbert Mann 1966 You're a Big Boy Now Margaret Francis Ford Coppola 1966 The Three Sisters Olga Paul Bogart 1967 Monday's Child Carol Leopoldo Torre Nilsson 1967 Happiest Millionaire Mrs. Duke Norman Tokar Disney1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? Claire Lee Katzin 1969 Trilogy Sook Frank Perry 1971 The Beguiled Martha Farnsworth Don Siegel Eastwood1971 J. W. Coop Mama Cliff Robertson 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie Gertrude Wilson Martin Ritt 1973 Happy as the Grass Was Green Anna Charles Davis 1975 The Day of the Locust Big Sister John Schlesinger 1977 Nasty Habits Sister Walburga Michael Lindsay-Hogg 1977 The Rescuers Madame Medusa Art Stevens Disney1978 Interiors Eve Woody Allen 1981 Harry's War 'Aunt' Beverly Payne Kieth Merrill 1981 Honky Tonk Freeway Sister Mary John Schlesinger 1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can Jean Scott Martin 1984 Pope of Greenwich Village Mrs. Ritter Stuart Rosenberg 1985 The Bride Mrs. Baumann Franc Roddam 1985 Walls of Glass Mama Scott D. Goldstein 1985 White Nights Anne Wyatt Taylor Hackford 1985 The Trip to Bountiful Mrs. Watts Peter Masterson 1986 My Little Girl Molly Connie Kaiserman 1986 Native Son Peggy Jerrold Freeman 1987 Riders to the Sea Maurya Ronan O'Leary (final film) INSURED MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING IN A BOX WITHIN 2 BUSINESS DAYS OF PAYMENT

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